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The strike is expected to run until mid-July.

Some team members working at Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege support studio Ubisoft Barcelona are going on strike through July to protest mass layoffs across all of Ubisoft's studios. The strike will seemingly only take place every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon from June 30 through to July 17.

Earlier in June, Ubisoft announced that they were letting go of roughly 380 people as part of their ongoing restructuring. The biggest...

The last of the new endgame content.

Ubisoft has been pretty darn good about supporting Assassin's Creed Shadows since it was released in March 2025. The title has received numerous title updates as well as a fair bit of content updates, for better or worse.

June 16th marks the date in which the last content update will be released for Shadows. The final drop of content will release alongside Title Update 1.1.1.1 that includes some fixes for a few lingering issues, some...

After weeks of rumors and leaks, it's officially revealed.

I almost missed this one yesterday due to the fact that I wasn't sure if the news I was seeing was just more leaks and rumors or if it was the real deal. Well, it's the real deal. Ubisoft officially announced their upgraded version of Assassin's Creed Black Flag.

Ubisoft calls it Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced and it is a "faithful recreation" of Black Flag, though it has several changes and enhancements...

Will just be a minor support studio.

Ubisoft has ceased all game development at the North Carolina based Red Storm Entertainment. As a result of this decision, 105 employees have been laid off.

According to information shared with Games Industry from an anonymous Ubisoft source, the studio will technically remain open but the few that remain employed there will be working on the Snowdrop engine, IT support, and customer relations.

The last couple of titles...

The restructuring will continue until morale improves.

More layoffs have hit Ubisoft today with word that 40 people from the company's Toronto studio are now laid off. According to MobileSyrup, the layoffs come as part of Ubisoft's continued restructuring into five distinct "creative houses."

Ubisoft issued a statement saying flatly, "Ubisoft Toronto will be reducing its workforce by 40 roles. The decision was not taken lightly and does not in any way...

Finding out about a game's cancellation through social media is too common for employees.

Eman Ayaz states that she lost three years of life in what she was calling a "life-changing role." Her comments come just a few days after Ubisoft announced the cancellation of the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake.

Ayaz says that last week was the "most devastating moment" of her career. The statements come from a new video blog the actress put up on her...

Marc-Alexis Côté is seeking $1.3 million in compensation and damages.

The former lead on the Assassin's Creed series at Ubisoft, Marc-Alexis Côté, is suing his former employer for $1.3 million in compensation and damages. The lawsuit was filed with the Superior Court of Quebec.

According to initial reporting from CBC Radio Canada, Côté says that he was the victim of a "disguised dismissal." When Côté parted ways with Ubisoft in October 2025, it was initially...

Surely the fact that they unionized has nothing to do with the shut down.

Three weeks ago, 61 out of the 71 employees at Ubisoft Halifax voted to unionize. Today, all 71 employees are now out of a job. Ubisoft says that they have shut down their Halifax location in order to "streamline operations, improve efficiency, and reduce costs." You know, the usual bullshit reason companies give for closing down entire studios.

Ubisoft went on to say that they "are...

Oh my god, it's just like the meme! Six seeeeeven! 🤷

Many Rainbow Six Siege players reported seeing ban messages pop up informing them that they have been banned from the live-service shooter for a period of 67 days. Players say that the ban reason was "due to harassment" and that the 67-day bans were clearly being done in a reference to the viral meme that your kids absolutely love for some reason.

The ban messages popped up over the weekend with the hardest...

There is no ETA on when online functionality will be restored.

Update on Monday, December 29th: Ubisoft started to bring the servers back online slowly late in the day on December 28th. Based on several updates made to their social channels, it appears as though the rollback is complete and Rainbow Six Siege is again available "to all players."

An issue with long queue times has also just now been resolved. From the sounds of things, it sure seems like Rainbow...

Not acquired yet at least.

This past week, Ubisoft abruptly halted all trading of company shares. They also postponed the release of their full financial report mere minutes before a scheduled shareholder call was set to take place.

This led many to believe that Ubisoft was preparing to announce that they have been acquired by another company.

The reality of the situation is actually far more mundane than any of the speculation was. Ubisoft had to postpone...

Maybe it will do away with the awful ship tailing missions.

According to a new report from Insider Gaming, the oft-rumored Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake will launch before March 31, 2026. This Black Flag remake has not been officially announced in any capacity but it has been heavily implied to be in development for quite some time now.

Insider Gaming says that they feel confident that the Black Flag remake will drop by March 31, 2026 because of something shared...

It's all about the F2P and live-service games.

Traditional, full-priced games are dead! This is at least what Ubisoft would like to have us all believe given what they claim in their latest UK financial filing (via CityAM). Specifically, Ubisoft claims that "many new games are struggling to stand out" and they cannot "achieve the sales they may once had had."

Ubisoft is saying that a one-time purchase of a "full game" that costs between...

A physical release is planned for later.

Ubisoft and Evil Empire say that The Rogue Prince of Persia is coming to both the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 on December 16, 2025. This release follows the fairly successful launch of the game on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation.

The release on December 16th will be digital only. However, Ubisoft says that a physical version is coming on April 10, 2026. Both a Standard Edition and Immortal Edition will launch on that date for PlayStation...